{"id":91204,"date":"2025-05-10T22:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T22:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/91204\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T22:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T22:53:10","slug":"when-to-see-the-flower-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/91204\/","title":{"rendered":"When to see the flower moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May&#8217;s full moon will appear full to our eyes starting Sunday night May 11 through early Tuesday, May 13.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/83333505007.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icon-play-alt-white.svg.svg+xml\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Top astronomy events for May 2025<\/p>\n<p>This May brings us a meteor shower visible around the world and a planetary alignment with our moon.<\/p>\n<p>The May 2025 full moon, also called the &#8220;flower moon,&#8221; officially occurs on Monday, May 12, giving skywatchers who are now enjoying milder conditions a chance to see a micromoon.<\/p>\n<p>Micromoons look a bit smaller and dimmer than usual. They occur when a full moon coincides with the point in its orbit when it&#8217;s farthest from Earth,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/astronomy\/moon\/micro-moon.html#:~:text=A%20Micromoon%20is%20when%20a,Moon%27s%20farthest%20point%20from%20Earth.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">known as apogee<\/a>. As a result, the micromoon will appear about 14% smaller and 30% dimmer than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, May&#8217;s moon will appear full to our eyes starting Sunday night May 11 through early Tuesday, May 13.<\/p>\n<p>When is the full moon?<\/p>\n<p>The full flower moon will reach peak illumination at 12:56 p.m. on May 12, 2025, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.almanac.com\/full-moon-may\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Farmer&#8217;s Almanac<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/earths-moon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The moon<\/a>\u00a0will also appear bright and full on Sunday (May 11) and Tuesday (May 13).<\/p>\n<p>To catch a glimpse, find a location with unobstructed views of the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it called the flower moon?<\/p>\n<p>During spring, flowers start to bloom across North America, inspiring the name of May&#8217;s full moon, according to the almanac.<\/p>\n<p>The almanac said full moon names &#8220;come from a number of places, including Native American, Colonial American, and European sources.&#8221; The \u201cflower moon\u201d name has been attributed to the Algonquin people.<\/p>\n<p>When is the full moon in June 2025?<\/p>\n<p>The next full moon will be the strawberry moon, which appears on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>What are the full moon dates for 2025?<\/p>\n<p>Here are the rest of the full moons for 2025:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>June 11: Strawberry Moon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>July 10: Buck Moon<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 9: Sturgeon Moon<\/li>\n<li>Sept. 7: Harvest Moon<\/li>\n<li>Oct. 6: Hunter\u2019s Moon<\/li>\n<li>Nov. 5: Beaver Moon<\/li>\n<li>Dec. 4: Cold Moon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contributing: Maria Francis, USA TODAY NETWORK; Emily Barnes, New York Connect Team; Tiffany Acosta, Arizona Republic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May&#8217;s full moon will appear full to our eyes starting Sunday night May 11 through early Tuesday, May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[901,43171,35324,3863,5777,5786,1497,43172,30637,38444,5488,5179,5496,6581,21334,70,413,1426,5598,3114,43173,6093,6589,5181,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-91204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-astronomy","9":"tag-calendars","10":"tag-full","11":"tag-full-moon","12":"tag-modular","13":"tag-modular-story","14":"tag-moon","15":"tag-moon-natural-satellite","16":"tag-n4n-news","17":"tag-natural","18":"tag-neutral","19":"tag-overall","20":"tag-overall-neutral","21":"tag-point","22":"tag-satellite","23":"tag-science","24":"tag-space","25":"tag-story","26":"tag-the","27":"tag-time","28":"tag-time-u0026-calendars","29":"tag-to","30":"tag-to-the-point","31":"tag-u0026","32":"tag-uk","33":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}